Joris Peels from Shapeways liked the cover on the HarperCollins UK edition of my novel Makers, which features a variety of objects depicted in the novel as plastic model-parts attached to a sprue. Shapeways being a custom 3D printing shop, Joris whipped up an incredibly detailed 3D version of the cover illustration, which arrived in today’s post. Color me grateful, delighted and gobsmacked. Thanks, Joris!

Update: Joris adds, “The design was modeled by Shapeways Community member Dmitry Kobzar; He spent 13 hours and 7 minutes making it. He will be thrilled that you’re happy with it. The reason I asked Dmitry to model it was so we could make Makers come to life just like the people in your book do.”

We’re going to release the model files under a Creative Commons license. Watch this space!